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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Do you need safe, fun ways for students to connect and learn while keeping their distance in the classroom? In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom.

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Mysimpleshow–Online Video Creator for Educators

Ask a Tech Teacher

I love hearing from colleagues about tools they discover that make a difference in their classroom. In addition, Dr. Cleary is a key member of the campus learning center at Keiser University, an active member of the Miami-Dade school system STEM advisory board, as well as a member of the Doral Chamber of Commerce.

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

Edsurge

A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005. Over the last 12 years, Pedersen has completely transformed his classroom, making it a model for other educators in the region and winning accolades (including a 2016 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching).

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Boxlight to Host Third Annual “Boxlight STEM Day” on November 8

techlearning

– Between 2005 and 2015, STEM employment grew by 24.4 percent, over five times more than non-STEM employment over the same period. This means the majority of new jobs will be in STEM fields, and educators have to prepare students for a workforce that will be vastly different from today.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Boaler first drew fire from critics in 2005, when she presented new research claiming that students at a low-income school who were behind grade level had outperformed students at higher achieving schools when they were taught in classrooms that combined students of different math achievement levels. That tells us something.”

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Alabama doesn’t want early childhood teachers talking about bias. Researchers say they need to.

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. Part of the issue stems from adults misinterpreting normal child behavior as misbehavior, said Linda Smith, director of the Early Childhood Development Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “A

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QS World University Rankings 2018: The Global Trends

EdNews Daily

The Rise of STEM Institutions. One thing unites the rise of EPFL and NTU as they seek to disrupt a top-10 cohort overwhelmingly dominated by the UK and US: they are both institutions specialising in STEM disciplines. The ascendancy of STEM-intensive institutions is visible throughout the tables.

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